Midnight Oil - 1984: Film

Midnight Oil: 1984

Director: Rob Argall

Piccolo Films Pty Ltd./Madman

In 1985 Tears For Fears sang that “Everybody” wanted “to rule the world” from their hit of the same name. In 1980s pop – certainly by the mid-80s – musicians were either aiming to be world-beaters or world-savers. The political climate was fraught, the threat of nuclear war, AIDS was a b…